Seeing The Blindspots - Exploring How You Think About and Experience Gender Diversity
with
Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD
We are all on a gender journey, whether we are aware of it or not. Recognizing our experiences and cultural narratives around gender helps us understand how we think about gender diversity and better understand the influences of our own gender privilege and marginalization.
In this training, Dr. Shawn V Giammattei will help you navigate an experiential personal journey involving the key person-of-the-therapist exploration that is necessary for gender affirmative work. The exercises in this training will help you unpack and deconstruct your own gender identity, gender development, and cultural narratives around gender and uncover potential areas of privilege you may hold.
When you explore these constructs for yourself, you come to an understanding around gender and sexuality that makes it much more difficult to treat gender diverse people like the “other,” and helps you meet your transgender & nonbinary clients and their families in a socioculturally attuned and collaborative way. You will walk away from this training with a better understanding not only of yourself, but also of the experience of your gender diverse clients and the impact of the questions you ask.
Workshop Schedule
10:00 – 11:30am
Introduction to Workshop
Recognizing Diversity of Experience/Privilege Exercise
Deconstructing Gender Questions/Dyadic Interviews
Discussion of Experience of Interview
Introduction to Cultural Narratives & Gender
11:30 – 11:45am
Break
11:45 – 1:00pm
Uncovering Cultural Stories Around Gender
Small Group Discussion of Cultural Impact
Q&A
Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Northern California and the founder and director of the Gender Health Training Institute and the TransFamily Alliance. He has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology and has over 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families around a wide variety of issues. He specializes in working with LGBTQ couples and families with a particular focus on the specific issues that arise for transgender/gender expansive (TGE) couples and TGE youth and their families.
Dr. Giammattei is certified by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health as a gender specialist, mentor, and is on faculty for their Global Education Initiative. He is an affiliated researcher, adjunct professor, and past Coordinator of Training for the Rockway Institute: A national center for LGBT psychology research, education, and public policy, at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University. He co-created the Rockway Certificate in LGBT Human Services, which includes the first semester long graduate course in transgender mental health and currently teaches graduate level courses in LGBT psychology, transgender mental health, and couples & family therapy. He is a research consultant to Kaiser Permanente, Northern California and Emory University regarding their NIH and PCORI funded studies looking at health outcomes of transgender patients. He is the past president and current council member of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California; past vice-president and board member of the American Family Therapy Academy; and a founding member of Mind the Gap, an organization affiliated with the University of California, Beniof, Child and Adolescent Gender Center focused on the needs of transgender youth and their families. He is also and the author of several articles and book chapters on gender, sexuality and family work.
When: January 13, 2023; 10am - 1pm PST
Where: Zoom
Cost: $50 ($25 for Student/Pre-Licensed)**
CE: 2 CE for additional $20
For more information about this workshop, contact us at info@sfiap.com or (415) 617-5932.
For information regarding workshop accommodations, and cancellation/refund policies, visit sfiap.com/faqs.
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
• CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (IAP) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
• LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
•For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance or about CE, contact IAP at admin@sfiap.com.